Uponita Mukherjee

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University

Proposal Title: A Case for Criminal Detection: Science, Stories and the Law of Evidence in British Bengal, 1850-1930

Estefania Mochon

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Middle Eastern Studies, University of Texas / Austin

Proposal Title: Trade Networks and Language Transmission: Uncovering Routes of Arabization in Al-Andalus

Travis Knoll

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, Duke University

Proposal Title: Liberate, Inculturate, Educate! Brazilian Black Catholics, Racial Justice, and Affirmative Action from Rio de Janeiro to Brasilia

Brittany Meche

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Geography, University of California / Berkeley

Proposal Title: Securing the Sahel: Nature, Catastrophe, and New Frontiers of Foreign Expertise

Janice Levi

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, University of California / Los Angeles

Proposal Title: Whispers in the West: the Emergence of a Jewish Community in Twentieth-Century Ghana

Chris Lesser

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Geography, University of California / Berkeley

Proposal Title: Forests for the English to See?

Anh Le

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, Michigan State University

Proposal Title: Chinese Migration, Colonialism, and the Making of Cosmopolitan Saigon, 1862-1954

Melissa Lefkowitz

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, New York University (NYU)

Proposal Title: Chinese Dreams in the Silicon Savannah: An Ethnography of Chinese Millennials in Nairobi, Kenya

Ling-wei Kung

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, Columbia University

Proposal Title: Intelligence Collection, Trans-Regional Trade, and International Relations between China and Inner Asia, 1697-1921

Jonathan Lear

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, University of California / Berkeley

Proposal Title: Splitting the Atom, Fusing the Nation: Japan and West Germany in the Atomic Age

Choon Hwee Koh

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, Yale University

Proposal Title: Outsourcing Empire: Contracting Out the Ottoman Postal System, 1690-1840

Linda Huang

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Art History/Architecture, Ohio State University

Proposal Title: Re-Imagining Post-Socialist Corporeality: Technology, Body, and Nation in Post-1989 Chinese Art

Hayana Kim

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Drama/Theater and Perfomance Studies, Northwestern University

Proposal Title: Performing Democracy: The Gwangju Uprising and the Politics of Mourning in South Korea, 1980-2017

Xiao Ke

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, Duke University

Proposal Title: Conserving (Non)violence: Animal Ethics, Political Struggle, and Wildlife Conservation in Tibet

Hilary Faxon

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Development Sociology, Cornell University

Proposal Title: Making Myanmar: Struggles over Land on Asia’s Last Frontier

Bhoomika Joshi

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, Yale University

Proposal Title: Drivery: Transport, Mobility and Possibility in the Indian Himalayas

Huatse Huazejia

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, University of Michigan

Nafis Hasan

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, University of California / Los Angeles

Proposal Title: Techno-Politics of ICTs: Investigating Bureaucratic Practices and Subjectivities in the Digital Age

Curt Gambetta

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Art History/Architecture, Princeton University

Proposal Title: Substituting Modernity: Architectural Materials and Subaltern Building in Postcolonial India

Andres Garcia Molina

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Ethnomusicology/Music, Columbia University

Proposal Title: Street-Vendor Calls in Cuba: Sound, Labor, Infrastructure

Huma Gupta

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Art History/Architecture, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Proposal Title: Informal Dwellings and the Formation of Modern Iraq

John Gorczyk

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, Cornell University

Proposal Title: Animals, Humans, and the Creation of Neolithic Society in Prehistoric Bulgaria

Emily Hite

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): Anthropology, University of Colorado / Boulder

Proposal Title: Negotiating Sovereignties in the Heart of Costa Rica's Climate Frontier

Aaron Aruck

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, University of California / Santa Cruz

Proposal Title: Policing Sexuality and Migration at the U.S.-Mexico Border: Bi-National Efforts to Control Prostitution, Venereal Disease, and Homosexuality across International Space, 1920-1965

Riley Brett-Roche

Competition: International Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018

Institutional Affiliation (at time of award): History, Stanford University

Proposal Title: The People's Paper Archive